Under this heading political scientists
can express in a free style their views on the key problems of political science
and on the current political life in Russia and in the world. The theme of
the earliest issues (in the period from November 2000 till August 2001) were
connected to the 10th anniversary of our journal.

The theme for new course of texts was prompted
by the life itself, by the tragic development of events that took place on
the 11th of September in America. We are going to discuss more the distant
consequences of these events than their concrete reasons. What kind of world
would it be after the 11th of September, what kind of transformation would
political norms and institutions be subject to?

We
present new collection of texts: The world after the 11th of September:
considerations and predictions. The conversation of global consequences
of the events of the 11th of September has been opened by: